Windows on SSD or PCIe 4 nVME?

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I'll be doing full system rebuild soon, although I will be keeping most of the drives (standard HDDs and SSDs)

I currently have windows on a WD M.2 SATA, but I also picked up a Sabrent Rocket PCIe 4.0.

Would it be worth having windows on the PCIe 4 nvme or leave it on the SATA nvme and save the PCIe 4 for games etc?
 
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Yeah, no reason not to put the OS on the fastest drive.
I genearlly have OS, apps and a current favorite game or two on that, and then other drives are general storage, My C drive is only 240gb so can get quite full if I've got a few games on the go, so sometimes I'll have to install a game on one of my 'media' drives.
 
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What's the point of OS on fastest drive, once loaded you'd not be using the drive at all, I wouldn't waste a good drive on OS unless its your only drive.
 
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What's the point of OS on fastest drive, once loaded you'd not be using the drive at all, I wouldn't waste a good drive on OS unless its your only drive.
And loading of modern Windows isn't demanding task:
It's mostly loading hibernation file meaning very little IOPS load and mostly just easy sequential reads.
Also amount of data isn't such big that it would need the highest bandwidth.


 
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